- Location
- Mendips Somerset
This ^^Transport prices are killing the job at the moment so you should be able to compete quite easily. When it comes to lamb, I don't see why you can't anyway. Lambs get fat off grass, the UK grows grass very well and in many cases you get paid for owning the land the grass grows on.
Perhaps retailers import because of carcass balancing? They can order just what they want at the standard they want and don't have to worry about the bits they can't use/sell?
so many out of spec lambs in mart , and lack of price differential by the buyers is a major problem , (throughput and all that ) farmers buying huge over fed rams to put on big ewes (suffx mules down here ), struggling to finish them @ 40kg. and to many breeds used ,